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Claude Instant vs Claude Opus 4.8
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.8 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.8 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in general.
Category leads
general·Claude Opus 4.8
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Instant
#42 by perf·no signal
Claude Opus 4.8
#72 by perf·#5 by attention
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
Claude InstantClaude Opus 4.8
Dtbench
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +81.9
Claude Instant
9.6
Claude Opus 4.8
91.5
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
Dtbench | 9.6 | 91.5 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 |
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